Simple Defense

As a beginner, your first step is to master the art of defending your pieces!

For those new to chess, learning how to protect your pieces from capture is essential. Every player must grasp and reinforce fundamental defensive techniques, such as moving a piece to safety, protecting it with another piece, intercepting a threat, or counterattacking. By practicing with a large set of exercises, you will strengthen your understanding and raise your overall playing level. This course offers over 2,800 exercises, many with full boards, making it a powerful training resource for chess novices.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess training method. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, with material tailored for all skill levels—from beginner to advanced, and even professional players.

Using this course will help you expand your chess understanding, pick up new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practice.

The program acts like a personal coach: it assigns exercises and supports you when you get stuck. You’ll receive hints, explanations, and even see strong refutations for common errors.

Program Highlights:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ All key moves, as directed by the coach, must be entered

♔ Tasks of varying difficulty levels

♔ Different objectives to accomplish in each puzzle

♔ Hints provided when a mistake is made

♔ Refutations shown for typical wrong moves

♔ Option to play out any position from the exercises against the computer

♔ Organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your training

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises

♔ Tablet-optimized display

♔ Works offline

♔ Sync your progress across devices—link the app to a free Chess King account and train on Android, iOS, and the Web simultaneously

A free section is included so you can try the program. The free lessons are fully functional and let you experience the app before unlocking additional topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing an attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defending against checkmate

6. Difficulty level

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